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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-02-09
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

The cave animals of North America,
according to Professor A. s. Packard,
comprise a total of 172 species of blind
creatures, nearly all of which are mostly
white in color.
A communication to the French Acad-
emy of Sciences by Mons. c. V. Zenger,
has called attention to the simultaneous
occurrence of brilliant auroras and me-
teoric showers, suggesting q probable
connection.
The Importance of microbes to the
growth of plants has been practically
demonstrated by NJ. Laurent, who OBJ
tanned only one-fourth as much buck
wheat from sterilized mould as in soil
containing bacteria.
A new method of cure has been re-
Gently and successfully tried by physi-
clan in Thuringia. He made the expert
ment of letting several of his phthisical
patients pass the night in the open forest
in hammocks, covered with cushions and
plaids.
A German engineer named Henkels
has invented ventilating window pane
which admits fresh air while preventing
a draught. Each square metre of glass
contains FIVE thousand holes, which are
of conical shape, widening toward the
inside. The new device has already
been adopted by many of the German
hospitals.
In the new organ now being built by
Messrs. Willis for Canterbury Cathedral,
the electric current is also employed as a
transmitter of power from the fingers of
Nbn ,@N % = 1,a son lo
100 feet above him This is no new ap-
plication of electricity, for the same thing
has been done in past years. But the sys-
tenn employed is new, and is the inven-
ton of the builders of the organ.
Mahogany is being rapidly introduced
into every part of India, where it promi-
ses to thrive. The seeds sown have ger
minated remarkably well, single pound
planted in green n-houses in the southern
districts having yielded between three
and four thousand plants. 1t is thought
to be quite probable that the world may
some day look to India instead of to
America for its mahogany, as we'll as for
its quinine The eastern product of the
latter has already become so extensive
and of such superior quality that the
SAASAO" "a BOAeS " SAS
States of Colombia are said to have di-
minished fifty per cent. within five
years.
In some of the great sawmill establish
ments of the West, six foot circular
saws are run 760 revolutions to the min
ute. Running at $50 revolutions to the
minute, the teeth Of the six foot saw are
travelling nearly three miles minute.
Six foot saws have been driven at as
high rate of speed as $50 revolutions to
the minute. In Michigan, few years
ago, a Canadian company geared up its
mill to run its six foot saw $50 revolu-
tions to the minute. A sawmill at Padu-
cab, KY, which had seventy-six inch
saw and steam feed, cut one day 10,-
571 feet of one inch poplar boards in
about seventy minutes. In this trial the
saw made no sawdust; each tooth tore
out strip of wood about one-quarter
of an inch long. Michigan sawyers have
boastpd of a mill dropping sixteen one
inch sixteen-foot boards a minute, but
this seems like an exaggeration.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-02-09
Rheumatism and Catarrh Can be Cured.
CANANpArouA. N. Y, Nav 2s, 1888

CANANDATGUA, N. Y, May 2s, 1886.
Pdrdee Medicine Co..
GENTLENEN;-Nearly ali winter was con-
fined to my room with infammatory rheu-
matism. l commenced using DR.. Pardee's
Rheumatic Remedy, but after taking it for
a time the pain became more intense, and
was alarmed and feared the remedy was
making me worse but continued its use and
soon the pain left me, and / gradually i'm
proved, the soreness leaving my arms and
shoulders and seeming to pass out at my toes
1t has completely cured me. At the time
commenced using the remedy, 1 had a
throat difficulty and the catarrh, which
found to be better after taking it, and it oc-
curred TO me to use it as gargle, which
did, and to my great satisfaction improved
rapidly and to-day am free from both rheu-
matism and catarrh. 1 consider it indispens.
able as family medicine. / take one tea
spoonful after breakfast, and find it splen-
did tonic. would advise you to recommend
it as gargle for throat troubles and catarrh,
for know it will cure. 1 have seen some
remarkable cures from the use of this rem
edy, and it is one l can recommend to all.
lam, very truly yours,
E. r. MCCALL.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-02-09
Stealing a Cannon.

There must be some clever thieves in
Russia. 1t might be supposed that
large cannon was about as hard thing
to walk away with as Mark Twain's
white elephant; but apparently it is not
safe TO leave such little articles around
loose in the country of the Gar
The Odessa correspondent of the Lon
don NeaOs writes: A singular and auda-
cious theft was perpetrated few days
ago at Sebastopol, The time gun, which
is fired every day at noon and again at
sundown, after which no foreign vessel
may leave the harbor, was stationed on
the land-spit on which Fort Paul stood
during the Crimean war. The time-gun
was ii brass cannon of considerable
weight, and, along with its timber, was
the other evening carried bodily away by
thieves. The police have failed to re-
cover the gun, the disappearance of
which has subjected the port authorities
To an amount of banter on their lax pro
lection OF the city defences.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-02-09
Crepe.


Crepe is made of the finest silk, but
the details of its manufacture are trade
secret. The three processes of its con.
struction are kept distinct; the weaver
never sees the dyeing, nor the dyer OF
weaver the crimping, Zach is carried on
in different place. Some facts are
known. Thus, the dyeing is the last of
the three processes aud it is dressed with
gum. 1t is therefore of the utmost i'm
portance that if crepe gets wet it should
not be put near the fire. If wet, it
should be wiped at once, or gummy
marks will be apparent wherever the
rain has fallen. But on no account
should it be placed near the fire. The best
method of removing mud or stains is to
damp the crepe with pure cold water,
and dry away from the fire. The manu-.
facturers could renew the condition of
shabby crepe, but in an amateur way less
costly creIe may successfully undergo
home treatment. Crepe is a manufac-
ture in which the English as nation
stand unriyaIed, although there are
manufactures OF crepe in France, Italy
and Germany, The imperial crepe as a
material for dresses is used where the
ordinary crepe is not required. 1t is
made of wool and is quite durable. 1t is
often used for trimmings, but this is by
no means its original purpose.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-02-09
Recipes and Hints.

To make paper stick to a wall that has
been whitewashed, wash in vinegar OF
ssleratus water.
When clothes are scorched, remove the
stain by placing the garment where the
sun can shine on it,
Always hang a broom up when not in
use, Put an ordinary, small-sized screw
eye in the end of the handle if no better
way suggests itself.
Remove the seeds and fill large green
peppers with cooked tomato pups and
mixed mushrooms seasoned with butter
and salt, and bake in hot oven. They
are very appetizing.
Equal parts of ammonia and turpentine
will take paint out of clothing, no mat
ter how dry or hard it may be. Satur-
ate the spot two or three times, then
wash out in soapsuds.
For roast turkey make the stuffing of
four ounces of finely minced sausage
meat, four ounces of slightly dry Vienna
bread, soaked in milk and pressed dry.
one tablespoonful of minced parsley,
one tablespoonful of minced onions, salt,
pepper. and grated nutmeg to taste, and
two eggs. Mix thoroughly and stuff the
turkey with it.
To polish glass and remove slight
scratches rub the surface gently first
with clean pad of fine cotton wool
and afterward with a similar pad GOV
cred with cotton velvet which has been
charged with fine rouge The surface
will, under this treatment, acquire a
polish of great brilliancy, quite free from
the presence of any scratches.
Hominy mullins are nice for breakfast.
Beat pint of cerealine to a smooth
paste, adding one-half pint of flour with
a heaping teaspoonful of baking pow.
der and teaspeonful of salt. Beat the
yolks of two eggs and mix them with
two cups of warm milk, two ounces of
sugar and two ounces of butter; mix
quickly with the hominy, adding the
two whites of eggs beaten to froth
Pour the batter into hot muffin rings OF
pans well buttered and bake in quick
oven.
In buying table linen the finer.
smaller the pattern the longer it will
last. When table cloths are half worn,
or past use as such, the best parts may
be cut into table napkins, and. if neatly
hemmed, few will notice that they arc not
Of a regular pattern, or these pieces may
be used to lay under boiled fish for serv-
ing; or they will be found very conven-
lent for wrapping cake before putting
away in tin box, for covering bread
and a score of other uses in the kitchen;
for it is never well to leave food, after
it is cold, uncovered and exposed to air,
dust and flies.
If Mrs. B. will try this South German
potato soup she will find it excellent;
and as it requires so little time in its
preparation it will be valuable addition
TO her book of recipes: Cook as many
potatoes as are needed in salt and water;
drain them and mash them fine; thin
thhm with boiling water aud pass the
mixture through sieve; boil leek and
add it to the sonp, as well as some -four
Drowned slightly in butter, and cook for
five or ten minutes. Just before serv-
ing and the yolk of an egg and also
some extract of beef if desired. Serve
with croutons.-NeaO YoLk Commercial.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-02-09
The Mania for Medicine.

There are 1,O1O medicines in the phar-
macopeia of the United States, and in
most communities there is one man who
has tried every one o. them before dis
covering that there never was anything
the matter with him. The taste for
strong drink is mild, innocuous, feeble
inclination, compared with the raging
mania for taking medicine" when once
it gains perniciously active hold upon
man. There are not many really sick
people in the world, and if it wasn't for
the man who delights in dosing himself
with anything that has long name and
an almanac attachment, there wOuldn t
be half enough paint on the rocks of
picturesque America to hide the land
scape .-Burdetle.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-02-09
The Largest Hay Market.

New York is the largest hay market in
the country, and yet only few thou
sand of the millions of bales which are
brought here annually find their way out
Of the city. The supply does not exceed
the enormous demand for city consump-
ton. Outside of few thousand bales
which go to Brooklyn to make up the
deficiency of the Long Island crop, the
$500, 900 bales which reach New York
every year are consumed on Manhattan
Island.
About a quarter of a century ago the
counties along the Hudson River, south
of Albany, were able to furnish the city
with all the hay it needed, and twenty
five barges made weekly trips for forty
weeks of the year to fetch the crop to
market. Now it comes from every part
of the State, and Ohio and Indiana are
called upon to help supply the demand.
Hay comes from even as far west as
Kansas.
AS the hay-growing district gradually
worked farther West the carrying bust
ness fell into the hands of the railroads,
and then the commission men made their
appearance. There are now about twenty
five large commission dealers who handle
hay exclusively, and a host of smaller
dealers who either buy it and bring it
here or handle it in connection with
other produce When the hay reaches
this city it is classified into grade No. 1,
grade No. 2, and grade No. 3. The av-
crage price is $15 per ton. 1t is not usu-
ally weighed at this end, but is sold by
the weight marked on each bale at the
time of packing. The street railway
companies insist upon having it weighed
here. before they buy it. over S16,O
worth comes in every day.-NeO York
World.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-02-09
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
HOW Laces May be Cleaned.

hoW hdCCH NAY ne OAenueu.
''The cheap laces, such as Oriental,
Fedora and Egyptian, are often cast
aside as useless when once soiled, but
they may be washed and done up as good
as new if little care is taken" said
dresser to a reporter for the New York
Nail and bTpreSs recently. "First the
laces should be carefully removed from
the garment and put into basin of hot
soap suds. Use an ordinary soap. After
soaking for an hour or so the lace should
be carefully rubbed between the hands,
and after washing in several waters it
may be boiled if very much soiled. The
lace should not be wrung out in the
regular way, but the water pressed out
with the palms of the hands. If narrow
lace for ruching purposes, starch with a
little clear starch, allowing one tea
spoonful to a pint of water, otherwise
take out of clear water. While still
damp, pull the lace gently with the
fingers INTO proper shape. Dry in the
sunshine, then dampen and iron over
several thicknesses eli flannel. The iron
should be moderately hot All the points
should be nicely pulled into shape with
the fingers and then ironed. Embroid-
cred laces should be ironed on the wrong
side so that the pattern is not flattened."
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-02-09
A Bows Great Grit.

Recently two boys, brothers, one of
eleven and the other ten years Of age,
were playing on the banks of the river
at Ures. They proposed to take some
wood home to their mother, and while
gathering it lifted the dry branch of a
tree and uncovered a rattlesnake, which
bit the eldest boy in the finger. The
youth, feeling the venom enter ng his
veins, called on the younger brother to
cut off the injured member The latter
asked with what7"
"With this thin fiat stone, replied the
intrepid youth, picking up one and
placing his finger on another fiat one.
The brother took the stone and ham
mered away, and after some time sue
ceeded in MASKING of the finger. thus
saving the life of the heroic boy, who
stood the horrible torture with great for
itude.-Br0wHsDil (Tera0 COSuepoli-
tan.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-02-09
Dead Beats.

There are 100 600 boarding houses in
this city, writes the New York CORE
spondent of the Troy Times, and yet
hardly one out of 100 has got rich at it.
Keeping boarders is slavish life, and
those who make a living at it mev be
considered doing WELL One of the great
est burdens to which this class is subject
is the "dead BEATS" who abound in that
great city. There are probably at the
present time 5000 persons living at
boarding houses who have for years got
along without paying. They are very
adroit in shifting around, and when
driven from one house find some other
victim. These dead beats also infest the
hotels, and popular landlord said that
he could not get rid of set of fellows
who sneaked in and got their meals. The
art of beating is carried to great perfec-
ton in this city, and is indeed often
practiced at the clubs, where, if man
can keep up his dues, he can sponge
drinks or get the barkeeper to chang it
up" Amoug the worst beats at the first
class hotels are the foreign gentry, who
bring letters from the nobility and who
want to get into society in order to marry
fortune, or, if that be impracticable,
to play as far as possible the foreign con-
fidence game. 1t is said that an English
visitor has just got home, leaving every
man in the club where he got an iutro-
duction) his creditor. He did not even
spare the steward. Another dangerous
class to hotels is found in the elegant
and fascinating ladies who come in a
dashing way with lavish display of dress
and diamonds and are prosecuting claims
for imaginary estates.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-02-09
Less than One.half the Amount Cured
Him.
E. R. MCCALL

John C. Heron, Of 46 4th street, Rochester,
has been troubled for years with rheumatism
in the shoulders and about the heart He
gave physician ten dollars for an examina-
tion, and he merely informed him that he
had rheumatism of the heart. He was cured
by DR.. Pardee's Rheumatic Remedy, and for
less than one-half the money paid for the ex-
animation.
Ask your druggist for DR.. Pardees Rem
edy, and take no other. Price, 81 per bottle
six bottles, s..
Pardee Medicine Co., Rochester, N. Y.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-02-09
Financial AhilIIY.

''Do you know, Dumley, if Robinson
IS a man of any financial ability"
Il imagine not, or he would occa
sionolly have money in his pocket. I
never asked him for dollar yet that he
didn't say he hadn't a cent in his
pocket"
Then what I've heard must be truei"
whats thatf'
That he is a man of remarkable fnan-
Cial ability. "-Nei0 York Sun.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-02-09

A NINE Of beryls is n new find in Connocti-
cut. The ber, Is already taken out include
the variety known as Golden beryls, and rank
as pr cious stones only two places lower than
diamonds. There are also other brilliant col
ors II nd in this mine.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-02-09

When irritation OF the throat causes a tick
ling cough, use Red Star Cough Cure, which
will effect immedia e and permanent relief.
One of Brooklyn's Board OF Health officers
recommends IL as purely vegetable and per-
fectly harmless. Price 25 cents.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-02-09
"ItKnock.Ihe Spota.n

and everything in the nature of eruptions,
blotChes, pimples, ulcers. scrofulous humors,
a nd incipfent consumption, which is nothing
more nor less than scrofula OF the luugs, COM
pletely out OF the system. 1t stimulates and
regulates the bowels, purifies the blood and
builds up the weak places of the body. 1t Is
a purely vegetable compound, and will do more
than is claimed for Il. We refer to DR.. Pierce's
Golden Medical DScOUerU."
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-02-09

are the words used by a lady, who was at one
time given up by the most eminent phi ysicians,
and left TO die. Reduced to a mere skeleto on,
pale and haggard. not able TO leave her bed,
from all those distressing diseases peculiar to
suffering females, such as displacement leu
corrhpa, Inflammation, etc, etc. She began
taking DIR. Pierce's "Favorite Prescription"
and also using the local treatments recon-
mended by him, and is now, she says, "as good
as now" Price reduced to one dollar. By
druggists
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-02-09

St Jacobs Oil deadens pain and makes the
lamo walk Major Arnold, OF the Occidental
Hotel, San Francisco, Cal, was completely
cured of rheumatism by its use.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-02-09
A Pound of Cotton.

A single pound of cotton, spun with,
out waste INTO spool thread OF No. so.
would make 80, 900 feet, or say six miles
SO the last years cotton crop equals a
No so thread over ,Oy3 million mile,
long d9, OJ3, 833, 500 niles With the
earth for a spool 25, 600 miles around,
such thread would encircle it 763, 1853
times 1t would run 10, ]0J threads be
tween the earth and the moon, or 2O7
threads from the earth to the sun, each
thread %, 600, 600 miles long.
o,. - 2: A. f.t;-LJ -, ,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-02-09

IN the State Of Michigan it is claimed there
arr 1876 firms engaged in the manufacture OF
salt, operating llU works and 4,JOO solar COW
ers. The manufacture for the Nelr amounted
10 ,0g7 ,y43 barrels, an increase OF 79s 1859 over
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-02-09
WELL DRILLING

aehinsry Wells Of any depth from go to 5000 fss6
Tor Water, oil Gas Our Mounted Steam Drilling and
Portable Horse Power Machines 10 work in 90
drill faster and with less power than any
other Specially adapted to drilling Wells in earth
rock 20 70 900 feet Farmers and others making e&b
20 $40 per day with machinery and tools Splendid
business for Winter Summer. We the oldest and
largest Manufacturers In tho business Send cents In
Stamps for illustrated Catalogue H. Address,
Pierce We'll ExcaVRtor Co., New York.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-02-09

For weak lungs, splitting of blood, shortness
of BREATH consumption. night-sweats, and all
lingering coughs, DR. Pierce's Golden Medi-
cal Discovery" is n sovereign remedy. Supe-
rior TO cod liver oil. BY druggists.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-02-09
Howto save Money.

In England the demand for American oys-
ters farexceeds the supply.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-02-09

THE "b' ack mud" Of Garland County, Ark,
yields forty dollars in silver to the ton.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-02-09
"Aa Good ms New,,,

TIE Centennial of Columbia College CIew
York; will be celebrated In April next
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-02-09

Wherever you live, you should write to Hal
lett q Co., Portland, Maine, and learn about
home at profit of at least from $5 to SIS and
upwards daily. Some havs made over $50 in
& 20. will start you. Capital not needed. All
par iculars free. Send along your address
at once and all of the above will be proved TO
you. Nothing like 1t ever known TO working
men.
The farmers, in their swamps, we're sure,
Could find the roots and plants that cure;
If by their knowledge they only know
For just the disease each one grew.
Take courage now and swamp Root" try
for kidney, liver and bladder complaints),
AS on this remedy you can rely,
If afflicted with sore eyes use DIR. Isaac Thomp-
sons Eye-water Druggists sell at Csc. per bottle
If cough disturbs your sleep, take Piso'
Cure for Consumption and rest well.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-02-09

Sixty feet of solid salt has been struck
at Port Huron, Mich.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-02-09

Olive wood is the fashionable wood
rust now.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-02-09

If cough disturbs your sleep, take Piso'
Cure for Consumption and rest we'll.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-02-09

If afflicted with sore eyes use DIR. Isaac Thomp-
sons Eye-water DruEgls lsts sell at 25c per bottle